Mark Robins was critical of his Coventry City side despite their 4-2 victory over second from bottom Bradford City.

The Sky Blues moved up to eighth place in League One, just a point off the play-off places after claiming a terrific three points at Valley Parade.

Two early goals from Jonson Clarke-Harris and Conor Chaplin put the visitors in pole position but the Bantams pulled goals back twice after the break – to annoy the City manager – while Jordy Hiwula and Tom Bayliss added a third and fourth to send the noisy travelling fans home happy.

“I was happy with the result but the performance wasn’t great,” said Robins.

“We have conceded two poor goals and not passed it as well as we normally do.

“The support was brilliant and we created quite a few chances, away from home, which is outstanding.

“But to be honest we haven’t played as well as we have been doing, so from that point of view that was disappointing.

“I don’t want to put a dampener on it but I just want the players to understand that to concede two goals like we have done against better teams will cost us.

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“The goals, the corners, the set plays were good but it was a bit nail biting at the end.

“I think their player put the ball in with his hand so the referee did well to see that and he got some stick tonight. But I don’t think he got many wrong.

“He let the advantage play and that’s what you want, an attacking end to end games at times, and that’s what we got.”

He added: “We started well. I thought it was a good set play, decent header from Tom Davies to put the ball back in and Jono got his head on it and put it in the back of the net.

“They are working hard from set plays and then we just got better. We got a second goal quickly and a third one from Jordy in the second half and Tom Bayliss rounded off with a really nice finish, stepped inside his man and rolled it in the corner.

“At 4-1 it was a decent result but we contrived to allow them to bully us a little bit.

“But two away journeys in a week has been tough and you could see then tiring at the end a little bit. So it’s a case of feet on the floor and get ready for a really tough opposition on Saturday in Doncaster Rovers.”